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Now that the NHL lockout has ended, many of the league’s players that were playing hockey overseas have returned to North America. Pavel Datsyukof the Detroit Red Wings will soon do the same, but not until the 10-year agreement that was reached on Sunday has been ratified by the Board of Governors and the […]

The 2013 IIHF World Junior Hockey Championships didn’t go so well for Team Canada. With the NHL locked out for the duration of the tournament, all eyes in the hockey-loving Great White North—or most of them, anyway—were focused on the annual World Juniors in Ufa, Russia. So the team that won gold at the tournament […]

Good news, Florida Panthers fans: your long nightmare is over. The NHL lockout is over. Hockey is back. As you’ve surely heard by now, in the wee hours of Sunday morning, the NHL and the NHLPA finally reached a tentative agreement on a new CBA that will supposedly have players back on the ice and […]

This bench (literally) brawl from last Friday between the Huntsville Havoc and the Mississippi Surge of the Southern Professional Hockey League is pretty brutal…and epic! The Havoc, the team in red, were winning 3-2 late in the third period when Cory Fulton (number 44 in the video) gets pulled into the Mississippi bench. Huntsville cleared […]

After years of bouncing around various minor league hockey teams, American defenseman Mike Ratchuk is finally making the highlight reels. Watch as Ratchuk scores an amazing shootout goal during an Austrian Erste Bank Eishockey Liga (EBEL) game between Olimpija Ljubljana– his team– and Orli Znojmo, in front of… well, almost nobody. This is why YouTube exists, […]

Minor hockey goaltender Jake Theut is one fearless dude. During a recent game, the Michigan native, who plays for the St. Mary’s Lincolns in Canada’s Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League, initiated a risky maneuver that flipped Josh Kerstner of the Sarnia Legionnaires head-over-heels. Following a blocked shot, Kerstner found himself skating full speed on a breakaway […]

The NHL season might be partially cancelled but that doesn’t mean that there aren’t any good hockey fights going on. Case in point: this awesome line brawl between the Minnesota Wilderness and the Thunder Bay North Stars of the Superior International Junior Hockey League. The fight started when Minnesota’s Zach Thielen (number 17 in the […]

When Sidney Crosby played his last NHL game, he did so as arguably the league’s best player. When he plays his next NHL game, he may do so as the league’s best up-and-coming goalie. Okay, so that probably won’t end up happening, but who knows? If this lockout lasts long enough, Crosby may get enough […]

So, what’s your position on a guy with razor-sharp blades of steel strapped to his feet jumping over a row of children? Are you for it, or against it? Personally, though I wouldn’t say I’m 100% against it, I’m not completely comfortable with the idea, either. Or at least I wouldn’t be if it were […]

The list of interesting jobs performed by NHLers during the lockout is growing longer and weirder everyday. Just to recap, we’ve seen Vancouver’s David Booth hunting gigantic wild beasts, Montreal’s P.K. Subban doing the weather and training police dogs, Los Angeles’s Dustin Penner interning for Conan O’Brien, and pretty much everyone in the Nashville Predators’ […]

Mark Wahlberg is actively involved in several different charities, as the actor has sacrificed plenty of cash and time to help those in need. And it appears as though “Marky Mark” is also willing to risk sacrificing a few teeth for a good cause, as the man who played Mickey Ward in The Fighter recently […]

While I’m sure every NHL player would love to know what it’s like to play for the Montreal Canadiens in the most hockey-mad city on earth, there are definitely perks to playing elsewhere. For proof, just look at what some players have been up to during the current NHL lockout. On the one hand, there’s […]

The NHL lockout has now reached 80 days, and there are no signs of a resolution. The players have made what they call “major concessions” which the league rejected as nonsense. And the league has made what they call “major concessions” which the players have rejected as nonsense. Now they’ve called in a federal mediator, […]

Last month, we provided you with footage of an epic KHL bout between Trevor Gillies and Jon Mirasty, which was made possible thanks in large part to the ongoing NHL lockout. For those who may not remember, that fight ended with several nasty left-hands from Gillies, which subsequently dropped Mirasty to the ice like a sack […]

Every year, in the weeks leading up to Christmas, the Calgary Hitmen hold an event known as “The Teddy Bear Toss.” The Hitmen, in case you didn’t realize, are a junior hockey team (named after legendary WWE wrestler Brett “The Hitman” Hart) that play in Canada’s WHL and are owned by the Calgary Flames. When […]